Chapter 81 Section 1

On August 28, 1949, as the southern country of Guangzhou was about to be liberated, the struggling Chiang Kai-shek and the national government fled to Chongqing in a hurry. As soon as Chiang Kai-shek arrived in Chongqing, he convened a defense conference. He declared: "Looking forward to the future, Guangdong and Guangxi are no longer guaranteed. The Great Southwest must be preserved on the mainland, so that we can cooperate with Taiwan and the coastal islands in the future to counter-offensive; if the mainland is completely abandoned, the national The government will completely lose its status in the international arena. The terrain in the southwest is dangerous, the products are rich, and the manpower and material resources are sufficient. This area must be preserved and become a revival base."

Zhang Qun, the southwestern military and political chief of the Kuomintang, known as "Huayang Xiangguo", followed Chiang Kai-shek all his life.At this time, he strongly agreed with the president's "wise opinion".He advocated the southwestern joint defense, with Chongqing as the axis, and 200,000 people in the south of Hu Zong served as the left wing. Chiang Kai-shek thought it was true, and at the same time withdrew 20,000 people from He Yingqin's nephew, He Shaozhou, from Kunming, deployed them near Guiyang, guarded the gate of eastern Guizhou, and deployed one army each in Yibin, Dongshan, Ya'an, and Chengdu in Sichuan, and two armies in southern Yunnan .

At this time, only the Southwest, Northwest and Taiwan regions are left for the Chiang Kai-shek Group, and the rest have no way out. In October, the Communist Party took the strategy of building plank roads openly and keeping old warehouses in secret, and ordered the second field army led by Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping to enter the Southwest.At the same time, an Eighteen Corps led by He Long and Li Jingquan entered Sichuan from Shaanxi along the Qinling Mountains. The three corps are like three sharp arrows pointing directly at the southwest. On November 1, Chiang Kai-shek ordered the Song Xilian Group of the Kuomintang to focus on the defense line from Badong, Hubei to Enshi.The 3rd and 5th Corps of the People's Liberation Army and the 1st Division of the 47th Army of the Four Fields adopted the strategy of attacking the east and attacking the west. With lightning speed, they raided from the junction of Sichuan and Guizhou, where the enemy's defense was weakest, from the north to the south of Tianzhu, Guizhou. There were multiple attacks on the 500-kilometer front to Badong, Hubei.

Chiang Kai-shek did not expect the Communist Party to have this move. He focused on the defense lines in eastern and northern Sichuan, but he had a fluke mentality for western Guizhou. Two miscellaneous troops are only used for symbolic coping. Once the Second Field and Five Corps broke through the Tianzhu and entered Guixi, Chiang Kai-shek suddenly panicked.He hurriedly ordered Gu Zhenglun, chairman of Guizhou Province of the Kuomintang, and Liu Bolong's 89th Army, He Shaozhou Army, to do a good job in Guizhou's defense and resist desperately. However, Guizhou is already in dire straits. How can the two miscellaneous armies be able to withstand the Fifth Corps of Yang Yong and Su Zhenhua, the famous CCP generals!Due to historical reasons, when Chiang Kai-shek dreamed of truly "unifying China", he first used the name of the Red Army that encircled and suppressed the Long March to abolish feudal vassals and centralize power. I saw clearly the true face of Chiang Kai-shek's unscrupulous rejection of dissidents.

Among them, Lu Tao, the former leader of the Guizhou Army and a veteran of the Guizhou military circle, is a prominent representative. Lu Tao managed the Yunnan Lecture Hall in his early years, and he was quite an influential figure in the corner of Yunnan and Guizhou.After the First Uprising of 1911, he returned to Guizhou at the invitation of Guizhou warlord Liu Xianshi.At the beginning of the Republic of China, taking advantage of the opportunity of changes in the history of the country, Lu Tao founded a military academy, pulled up a team, and funded a large number of people to study abroad.Under his influence and leadership, the two warlord systems in the history of the Republic of Guizhou, Xingyi and Tongzi, all came from his sect.The three brothers He Yingqin, Wang Boqun, and Anshun Gu in the Kuomintang, Liu Xianshi and Wang Wenhua, the early warlords, and Wang Jialie, who was later suppressed by Chiang Kai-shek, were all his disciples.

Therefore, Lu Tao was called "Qian Army Chief".At this time, although he had no military power and was in the shadows of the mountains and forests, his influence still played a decisive role in Guizhou.Don't look at the old gentleman leisurely in Linquan, but he has always cared about the times.He was extremely disappointed with the rottenness of the Kuomintang group, and he was full of goodwill and longing for the victorious Communist Party in his heart.Given his influence in Guizhou, the Communist Party also has high hopes for him.I hope he can influence Gu Zhenglun in Guizhou to take the path of peaceful uprising, so as to save poor Guizhou from the disaster of swordsmen.For this reason, Liu Bocheng, the commander-in-chief of the second field of the Communist Party of China, took advantage of their old friendship to personally fight for him.

Lu Tao readily agreed, and has been actively planning. When discussing Yuan Huguo, the troops of Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou provinces were led by Cai E, governor of Yunnan, to jointly deal with Yuan Shikai's Beiyang army.It was at that time that Lu Tao met Liu Bocheng, a middle-level officer of the Sichuan Army as the leader of the Qian Army, and he always praised Liu Bocheng's military command ability.The Red Army passed through Guizhou on the Long March. Liu Bocheng tried to contact Lu Tao and asked him to persuade Guizhou warlord Wang Jialie and others not to die for Chiang, but failed for some reason.

This time, Liu Bocheng's letter was to fulfill his promise, pointing out that the liberation of Guizhou was imminent, and he asked Lu Tao to persuade Gu Zhenglun, He Shaozhou, Liu Bolong, etc. not to hit a stone with an egg, but to follow the trend of history and save Guizhou from war. Although Lu Tao no longer cares about political affairs and has lived in the mountains for a long time, his influence is huge.Looking back at the beginning, Gu Zhenglun, the chairman of Guizhou Province of the Kuomintang, had no way to become an official. He used his connections to let Gu Zhenglun leave Guizhou to study in Japan. After returning to China after studying, he strongly recommended Gu Zhenglun. The commander of the gendarmerie led his two younger brothers to join the Central Committee, known as "one family and three central committee members" and "three heroes of the Gu family" in Anshun.

As for He Shaozhou, originally He Yingqin's nephew, Lu Tao presided over the ceremony, and as a witness, He Yingqin, who was childless, adopted He Shaozhou as his son.In terms of seniority, He Shaozhou had to call Lu Tao "Grandpa".As for Liu Bolong, he has a cruel temperament and a foolish desire to kill.He was originally a subordinate of the great secret agent Kang Ze, but later relied on speculation and became the commander of the army.However, his 89th Army was a miscellaneous army, rampant in Yunnan and Guizhou provinces, with a very bad reputation, poor military discipline, and poor combat effectiveness. If Gu Zhenglun and He Shaozhou were willing to revolt and cooperate with the People's Liberation Army to liberate Guiyang, the problem in Guizhou Province would naturally be solved.

Lu Tao immediately decided to try to do Gu Zhenglun's work first.The next day, he went to visit Gu Zhenglun in a simple manner. Hearing his teacher's visit, Gu Zhenglun didn't dare to neglect, he personally welcomed Lu Tao into the inner room with the same long beard.Gu Zhenglun closed the door, served tea in person, and stood beside him with a surprisingly respectful attitude, "What's the teacher, just ask the branch, and Zhenglun will go to the house in person, why is the teacher so great? Zhenglun is so frightened, really Impossible."